Sunday, August 6, 2017

Uplifting Poems

Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46446


Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/geese/geese.html


Golden Retrievals
by Mark Doty
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47252


The Sparrow
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sparrow-4/


Fifty Robins
by Amber Coverdale Sumrall
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/amber-coverdale-sumrall-fifty-robins.html


When I see birches bend
by Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44260


Aimless Love
by Billy Collins
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/09/billy-collins-aimless-love.html


Nutting
by William Wordsworth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45533


If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking/


Warning
by Jenny Joseph
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warning/


Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 3, Page 3,
Polonius' Monologue, To Thine Ownself Be True
by William Shakespeare
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_44.html


Dust of Snow
by Robert Frost
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dust-snow


The Snow Man
by Wallace Stevens
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45235


Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night


Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/desiderata-6/


A Brave and Startling Truth
by Maya Angelou
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/06/maya-angelou-brave-and-startling-truth.html


Touch Me
by Stanley Kunitz
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/kunitz/touchme.htm


Still Point
by Max Reif
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/12/max-reif-still-point.html


Thanksgiving
by Robert Nichols
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57230


The Peace Of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
https://prezi.com/cmpiliesui2g/the-peace-of-wild-things-by-wendell-berry/


The Summer Day
by Mary Oliver
https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html


In Spite of War
by Angela Morgan
http://www.bartleby.com/271/142.html


If You Forget Me
by Pablo Neruda
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-you-forget-me/


The Daffodils
by William  Wordsworth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45521


Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51642


I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
by Eva Rose York
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-shall-not-pass-way-again-0


The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/


Today
by Billy Collins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/40824


Say not the struggle
by Arthur Hugh Clough
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43959


Beauty as a Shield
by Elsie Robinson
http://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10121019


Worst Day Ever?
by Chanie Gorkin
http://www.poetrynation.com/poem.php?id=50509


What I Learned from My Mother
by Julia Kasdorf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48491

A Japanese Wood-Carving
by Amy Lowell
http://themargins.net/anth/1910-1919/lowellwood.html


On a Perfect Day
by Jane Gentry
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/09/jane-gentry-on-perfect-day.html


This Freedom
by Richard Brady
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/richard-brady-this-freedom.html


I Believe Nothing
by Kathleen Raine
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/12/kathleen-raine-i-believe-nothing.html  
The Art of Blessing the Day
by Marge Piercy
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/08/marge-piercy-art-of-blessing-day.html


The Book of Hours
by Joyce Sutphen
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/08/joyce-sutphen-book-of-hours.html


The Last Things I'll Remember
by Joyce Sutphen
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/07/joyce-sutphen-last-things-ill-remember.html


Heavy
by Mary Oliver
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/05/mary-oliver-heavy.html


Love
by Czeslaw Milosz
https://www.lionsroar.com/about-a-poem-carole-glasser-langille-on-czeslaw-miloszs-love-november-2012/  


My Weather
by Jane Hirshfield
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/05/jane-hirshfield-my-weather.html


The Promise
by Jane Hirshfield
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/02/jane-hirshfield-promise.html


Magic
by Jenifer Nostrand
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/12/jenifer-nostrand-magic.html
 

Beannacht
by John O'Donohue
(Gaelic: beannacht=blessing, currach=boat)
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/john-odonohue-beannacht.html


A Prayer
by Toyohiko Kagawa
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/toyohiko-kagawa-prayer.html


Morning in December
by Clarice Thompson
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/12/clarice-thompson-morning-in-december.html


talisman
by Suheir Hammad
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/01/suheir-hammad-talisman.html


Intimations of Immortality
by William Wordsworth
https://harpers.org/blog/2010/03/wordsworth-intimations-of-immortality/

 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/42891


The Sugar-Plum Tree
by Eugene Field
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sugar-plum-tree

 
Hello World
by Dan Coppersmith
http://jlewisandco.weebly.com/1/post/2011/11/hello-world.html


Japan
by Billy Collins
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/japan/


On How to Pick and Eat Poems
by Phyllis Cole-Dai
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2016/01/phyllis-cole-dai-on-how-to-pick-and-eat.html